Language endangerment and language maintenance /:

Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bradley, David, 1947-, Bradley, Maya
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Routledge Curzon, 2002.
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Zusammenfassung:Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed?This volume comprises:* a general ov.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 356 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781136852787
1136852786
9781315028811
1315028816

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